Natalie Panek

Natalie is a passionate explorer with a focus on the stars. An engineer currently on the team designing a Mars rover for the ESA 2020 ExoMars rover program. Natalie’s pursuits have earned her membership in The Explorers Club and she is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. A prominent champion of the women in STEM movement in Canada, Natalie has received accolades from the Women’s Executive Network, and recently Forbes magazine. Growing up in the Canadian Rockies fuelled her desire to spend her days exploring and pushing the boundaries of technology. She has visited many remote locations in Canada and abroad to feed her desire to explore and lives by the mantra “dare to achieve the impossible”. Learn more about Natalie at www.thepanekroom.com